3 Day Ankara Tour PackagePRIVATE

3 Day Ankara Tour Package is available everyday. Ankara Tour package is a private tour package and departs from Ankara Airport with the pick up sevice and covers the Gordion Ancient City of Phygia and Ankara City Tour which covers the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations and Mauseleum of Ataturk.

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3 Day Ankara Tour Package Itinerary

Day 1.: Arrival to Ankara, Transfer to Hotel. Overnight in Ankara.Day 2.: Gordion Tour. Overnight in Ankara. (Breakfast).Day 3.: Check out from hotel. Ankara City Tour. Transfer to Airport. (Breakfast)

3 Day Ankara Tour Package Description

Day 1.: Arrival to Ankara, Transfer to Hotel. Overnight in Ankara.

Upon arrival to Arkara Esenboğa domestic airport, then you will be transferred to your hotel, Check in and Overnight.

Overnight in Ankara.

Day 2.: Gordion Tour. Overnight in Ankara. (Breakfast)

09:00 AM Depart from your hotel in Ankara to Gordium.

Your tour guide and driver will come and meet you at your hotel reception then continue to Gordion tour.

Gordion Tour covers, the ruins of the city including the city walls, the Royal Palace, the Tumulus Tomb of King Midas and the Archaeological Museum.

the Gordium was the capital city of ancient Phrygia. It was located at the site of modern Yassıhüyük, about 70–80 km southwest of Ankara (capital of Turkey), in the immediate vicinity of Polatlı district. The site was excavated by Gustav Körte and Alfred Körte in 1900 and then by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, under the direction of Rodney S. Young, between 1950 and 1973.

Excavations have continued at the site under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania Museum with an international team. Gordium lies where the ancient road between Lydia and Assyria/Babylonia crossed the Sangarius river.

Excavations made on the upper part of the city revealed a high passage and houses belonging to royal family. Tumulus, the most famous of which belonged to King Midas; with its 53-meter height and 300-meter width,it is the second biggest tomb of its type in the world.

Tour the excavations of the capital of the ancient Kingdom of Phrygia, where Alexander the Great cut the proverbial knot and thus opened the way to Asia. The opportunity for your guide to tell the legend of King Midas with the golden touch comes as he leads you to the ruler's great earth tumulus.

Now A Days, the Gordion Museum displays artifacts in chronological order, with every period represented by characteristic examples: pots, pans, tools made from steel and textile looms from the Antique Bronze Age, Pre-Phrygian Period which ended with King Midas. Additionally, Greek ceramics from BC 6 - AD 4, materials from the Hellenistic Era and Roman times, seals and coins are also exhibited.

16:00 - 16:30 PM Is the end of the tour.

Overnight in Ankara.

Day 3.: Ankara City Tour. Overnight in Ankara. (Breakfast)

10:00 AM Depart from your hotel in Ankara.

Ankara City Tour covers the Visits to the Hittite Museum, Citadel of Ankara, Mouseleum of Atatürk.

Anitkabir (Mausoleum of Ataturk - founder and first president of the Turkish Republic) with the National World War I Museum & War of Independence Museum.

Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, a historic caravanserai holding artifacts from up to 7500 years, including the most extensive and valuable collection of Hittite artifacts in the world.

14:00 PM At the end of the tour. Return to take your luggages and transfer to Airport.